I remember from memory that I paid about $1.96 also at qty 25 for the ATMEGA328P-PU (DIP version) around July or August 2013 and also around December in a second buy. Now they are $3.34 for 10, $2.74 for 100, qty 25 is gone.

I don't mind price increases, but these ones are significant - 52% in the case of the QFP version. What gives? It doesn't seem to be a shortage, Digikey has a good number of these chips. Did Atmel really raise prices this much?

I didn't know that. It's interesting. It puts the lowest price ever at $2.29 and I have a record of getting it for $1.92 for 25 on 1/21/13 while it puts the price at $2.63 on that date. I wonder if this is for quantity 1 for all suppliers or some averaging over all quantities and all suppliers. The methodology isn't mentioned. It has the prices higher than what I paid for back then and now gives prices lower than what Digikey wants (now $3.10 @ 25, $2.90 @ 25 when I posted this two days ago!)

PEAK AVR! ]

But yeah, it went down and I bought it in a down area and it went back up.

Yes, the price has gone up but I can't help it. Have to have many of those suckers for my kits and builds. I have less than 100 left. Will take a vacation so please keep me posted on the price. I really should have dumped $200 towards the end of last year on more chips. Now I wasted about $100 extra. You never run out of ideas where to put them on a new design or build existing ones.

Plus, please buy multiples of 14 (14/tube) so they don't have to cut a tube.

I know, mouser has run out. I got a hundred before they ran out, at $2.8 each. I will be waiting and placing an order when they are back in stock. Good call, placed it in my scheduler. Forgot that myself and no taxes!

Yeah, the nice labeled ones from dipmicro.com Just not enough to go around. Bootloading takes 9 seconds with Optiloader.

I think if you bootload from atmel studio, it is even quicker as it only writes the bootload code, and not the whole chip.Not worth it for 1, takes more than 9 seconds for atmel studio to open. Haven't tried with my new Lenovo W530, see how much faster than old Sony Viao.